Heather Robinson

Heather Robinson is a writer and researcher specialising in the cultural history of the twentieth century. She is also a creative producer with thirty years of experience across the Australian GLAM sector and public service. Robinson completed a PhD at Flinders University, exploring the creative industries policy impacts on cultural institutions and their communities. She is an avid reader, Darwinian gardener, and passionate motorcyclist.

Robinson is an Honorary Research Associate for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in support of her biography of silent Hollywood actress and much-loved Melbourne philanthropist, Claire Adams Mackinnon. This work was shortlisted for the 2023 Deep Creek Writers Residency. In 2012, it was shortlisted for the inaugural Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for unpublished Australian biography.

Robinson completed her PhD at Flinders University in 2020, as part of the Laboratory Adelaide Project, exploring the impact of creative industries policy on cultural institutions and their communities, presenting a case study of the State Library of South Australia. A book based on her thesis was published by Wakefield Press 2025 as "Beyond the Books: Culture, value and why libraries matter."